Dear friends, today let’s talk about an incredibly exciting topic—could there be seeds of Earth life hidden in Martian soil? Recently, scientists have discovered mysterious microbial communities, and ...

NASA has found “the clearest sign yet” that life once existed on Mars, the agency announced on Wednesday.

Perseverance used its SHERLOC instrument for the photo. SHERLOC stands for Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & ...

NASA has just uncovered a groundbreaking discovery on Mars - and it could change everything we thought we knew about the Red Planet. From unexpected chemical signatures to signs of potential past life ...

“There is no evidence of microbes on Mars today, but if any had been present on ancient Mars, they too might have reduced ...

A Mars orbiter has captured images of a crater which offers insight into billions of years of history on the Red Planet. And, crucially, it could provide key information about ancient environments on ...

The discovery by the Mars rovers of carbonate in sedimentary rock on the Red Planet has enabled planetary scientists to rewind the clock and tell the tale of how Mars' warmer, watery climate 3.5 ...

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red Planet from space. Scientists say the discovery of siderite, a type of iron ...

Here’s the latest dirt on Mars. NASA’s trusty Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the so-called red planet for years, just unearthed something huge — a stash of carbon-rich carbonate minerals ...

When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...